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Borrowed Body.

Summary:

""I could have been born and raised in Africa. But my Spirit was in too much of a rush to be reincarnated ... At six weeks I was chucked out into the new year of 1965 which wasn't prepared to welcome on African baby, abandoned on a harsh English winter's day."" So begins Pauline's spirited and moving story of her childhood and teenage years in and out of foster homes and back and forth to Dr. Barnardo's Village in Essex. Her Barnardo's family was ruled by an unlikely trio--Aunty Claire, a fervent Christian; her laconic husband, the German Jewish Uncle Boris; and Aunty Morag, the cook. And, of co.

Record details

  • ISBN: 1927335604
  • ISBN: 1927335620
  • ISBN: 9781927335604
  • ISBN: 9781927335628
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (149 pages)
  • Publisher: Toronto : Demeter Press, 2013.

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General Note:
CatMonthString:september.21
Multi-User.
Type of Computer File or Data Note:
Text (HTML), electronic book.
System Details Note:
Mode of access: Internet.
Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note:
Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff.
Access restricted by subscription.
Issuing Body Note:
Made available online by JSTOR.
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.
Subject: Barnardo's (Organization) > Fiction.
Barnardo's (Organization)
Abandoned children > England > Fiction.
Mothers and daughters > England > London > Fiction.
Abandoned children.
Mothers and daughters.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Women's Studies.
England > London.
England.
Genre: Electronic books.
Autobiographical fiction.
Autobiographical fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Bildungsromans.
Domestic fiction.
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
Psychological fiction.
Psychological fiction.


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